I love how Kendra centered the the Bunny in the center of her card, with the clear cardstock behind him/her. The colors of her design paper, and placement of the sentiments with the embellishments.

Today is your last day to to enter our Great Impressions March Challenge! Hop on over for all of the details, and join in the FUN! We can't wait to see what you create this month!The Design Team returns next week with their beautiful projects. Wishing you a crafty weekend!

I love absolutely love the clean and simple feel to this beautiful shaker card. Her coloring and fussy cutting of the Elegant Cupcake is perfect. I really like how Kendra separated the sentiment to put the words next to each other vs. on top of each other. I'm a big fan of cutting my stamps to use them to their fullest capacity.

Monday, March 20, 2017

I made a Double Layered Tag for Easter to share instead of a card today. To start I pulled out a retired stamp (G282) and stamped it on Cream cardstock in two different colors. I then used my Bookmark/Tag Dies to cut out the large tag. Next I stamped the Spring is Here (D385) in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink two times. I added the diagonal stripes on the egg with a Multi-Liner Black Pen, then proceeded to color the egg with my Copic Markers, and cut it out. I then colored the top part of the egg that lays on its side, along with the Chick with my Copic Markers, and fussy cut them out.

I stamped the Open Happy Easter Sentiment (D346) with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, cut it out with a smaller die, then colored in the sentiment. Using the same ink that I used for the circles I used a dauber to apply it around both tags. I cut some grass with my Grassland Border Die, and double layered it at the bottom of my tag. Using thin and thick 3D squares and 1/4" Scor-Tape I added the egg and chick in the grass. The final step was to pull pink ribbon between both tags.

Our Great Impressions March Challenge is live! Hop on over for all of the details, and join in the FUN! We can't wait to see what you create this month!While the Designers take a break until April, we'll be sharing projects from previous designers. I hope you enjoy the inspiration this week and next week.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Good morning all. Our March Guest Designer Neva Cole is joining us today with a super adorable Spring card.

Here's what Neva has to say ...

It has been delightful to be a Guest Designer for Great Impressions this month. This is my third project for the Spring Challenge. I used Sweet Chick (G499) and a Sizzix Framelit Step-ups to create a fun spring card ready to say hello! The image is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with a variety of Chameleon pens. The image is die cut and edged with Memento Angel Pink. Green and light pink DCWV cardstock is die cut with the Sizzix set. The green die cuts are pressure embossed with Cuttlebug Kaleidoscope embossing folder. The embossed green sections and the “oh, hello” sentiment are adhered with Imagine On Point Glue. The Chick is adhered with thin dimensional adhesive.

Such an awesome card! From the design to the embossed background, with Neva's beautiful coloring! Make sure you stop by Neva's Blog to leave her some love!

Monday, March 13, 2017

Today's card features the lovely Bunny in Egg Balloon (F439). I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink several times. Copic Markers were used to color the image, all except for the balloon which is yellow cardstock. Once I colored the bunny and basket, I fussy cut all the pieces and layered them back together. I pulled out my cloud dies and inked the white clouds with a bit of distress ink along the bottom edge. Using my pierced dies I cut out a rectangle in white and applied distress ink to create a sky background. I then cut out a square in pink, and layered all of the pieces together to create my design.

I left off the sentiment since I'm not sure if I'll use this for Easter or a child's birthday card.

Jelly Bean Time is stamped on white cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black and then colored with Chameleon Pens. The sentiment is stamped in Radiant Neon Electric Pink and the panel is die cut with Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles. Thin pastel pink ribbon is looped around the corners and a small bow is attached in one corner. A second Stitched Rectangle is die cut from white cardstock and sponged with Radiant Neon Electric Blue. The bottom layer is white cardstock brayered with Radiant Neon Electric Pink. Darice Plaid embossing folder is inked with Radiant Neon Electric blue and the layer is pressure embossed creating a blue and pink plaid pattern. The embossed layer is attached to the card front, and the top two layers are adhered with dimensional foam adhesive. The inside of the card is embellished with the Border of Jelly Beans (B252).

Such an adorable card! I love the pastel colors and design of Neva's project. The embossed background looks amazing! Make sure you stop by Neva's Blog to leave her some love.

Friday, March 10, 2017

Robinhere. I'm so glad it's Friday and I have a new card to share with you.

For this card I am using Rose Trio (G454) with the sentiment Happy Everything (B246). I've done the image twice so that I could pop it up for extra dimension. The background is embossed with roses and I had to add some butterflies for the Spring experience too.

Our challenge this month is Spring and/or Easter. I so hope to see you in the challenge. I can't wait to see what you create!

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

I'm here today to share a fun birthday card I've made using Party Penguins and Your Birthday. I really wanted to use some bright, fun colors to make this card, so I decided to use pink, green, orange, yellow, aqua blue and white I used a curved edge die for the yellow piece to add a little bit of interest for the front of the card.

I used an embossing folder to add some texture to the green background piece. I stamped the penguins in blank ink and used various Copic markers to color them in. I stamped the sentiment in orange ink before layering it on a piece of aqua card stock. I added some white stitching lines along with white sequins and silver stickles for some final touches.

That is all for today, I hope you have a great day and I'll see you all again soon!

Monday, March 6, 2017

Today's card features the lovely Happy Spring Tulip (E442). I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Copic Markers were used to color the image. I masked off the area and applied Distress Ink around the image. I stamped a couple extra copies of the image, color the tulip and leaf and paper-pieced them on my design to give my card some dimension. I then added a couple of enamel dots around the image.

We have a NEW Challenge that started yesterday. Stop by for all of the details and then join in the FUN for a chance to win an awesome prize, and for a chance to be our Guest Designer in April.

It's time to move on to our New Challenge.
This month we have a Theme Challenge ~ Create a Spring and/or Easter project using the photo as inspiration ~There are so many options ... from the colors, flowers, vase, eggs, etc.

Nevawill be sharing her creations during the Month of March with all of us.

Hello, I live in Central Oregon on a mini-farm full of fun critters with my loving husband, two sons, and college-aged daughter in the summer. We raise German Shepherds and currently have four that call us their humans. I’ve been crafting my entire life and settled in on paper crafting about 24 years ago. I stamp and create cards, scrapbook, and make home décor items. I enjoy playing with ink, stamps, paper, dies, embossing folders, and mixed media. I am excited to be Guest Designing with Great Impressions in March, thank you for having me!

Nevadid an amazing job with our Theme this month! Her coloring and design makes an awesome Spring card. Make sure you head over to Neva's Blog to see how she put this beautiful card together. Don't forget to leave her some love while you are there.

If you don't have a blog, you may post your entry in the gallery at Splitcoaststampers using the keyword GISMC in the Title, and then link it up below so we can find your project. This way we can also leave you a little love. If you don't have a Blog or Splitcoaststampers Gallery, please email Ruza at greatimpressionsstamps@gmail.com with the Subject line "GI Monthly Challenge Entry", and she will enter it for you.

Friday, March 3, 2017

It's Robin here. I'm in the Midwest and our storms have just begun. Hope you are fairing well in all this. On Sunday we will begin our March Challenge. I can't wait to see all of your wonderful projects! I love to be inspired by y'all.

I have a birthday card to share with you today. With it being March I thought I would start out with some March Daffodils (G411).

I have made this with a lot of things you can feel as it has been made for a lady that happens to be blind. She feels to see so it had to have a lot she can feel. Tomorrow is her birthday so I am using Happy Birthday (E367) embossed with some glitter embossing powder. You can see these and many other beauties at the Great Impressions store.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

I know some of you are still in the deep freeze of winter; but try to hold on...Spring is coming! I thought it would be a great idea to share a card to remind us that bright blue skies and sunny days are on their way! What better way to do that than to get a bit of a jump start on Easter cards.

For my card today, I chose a purple, green, grey and white color palette because I thought purple would be a perfect color for the "Tall Tulips" stamp set. I stamped the tulips in black ink and then colored them in with some Prismacolor pencils and blended with some oil and a blending stump. I stamped the "Happy Easter" sentiment in Wilted Violet distress ink and added it at the bottom. There are so many great Easter and Spring stamps in the Great Impressions store! Go have a look and be inspired!

That is all for me today, however. Have a fabulous day and I will see you all again soon!